The drugs, sutezolid and delpazolid, have demonstrated strong antimicrobial activity and a notably better safety profile ...

New drugs that target 'zombie' tuberculosis (TB) cells are now a step closer, thanks to a new study led by the University of ...

The Tulane team has developed a handful of other assays for TB detection, including a mass spec test for paucibacillary TB ...

New drugs that target "zombie" tuberculosis (TB) cells are now a step closer, thanks to a new study led by the University of ...

Two lipoglycans, lipomannan (LM) and lipoarabinomannan (LAM), play various, albeit incompletely defined, roles in the interactions of mycobacteria with the host. Growing evidence points to the ...

This is a summary of the work done in researching the feasibility of using UVC-LEDs to disinfect airborne Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This research was necessitated by the increasing threat posed by ...

The high-temperature requirement A (HtrA) family of serine proteases has been shown to play an important role in the environmental and cellular stress damage control system in Escherichia coli.

Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is a major global health threat, with Ningbo reporting over 3,000 annual cases of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB). This study analyzes the notification and mortality rates ...

INTRODUCTION Tuberculosis (TB) significantly affects global health and is a major cause of mortality among infectious diseases. Until the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic when it became the second ...

Post-transplant TB often occurs within the first few years of receipt of a renal allograft but a 27-year-old man presents with isolated skin ulcers from Mycobacterium TB 12 years post-transplantation.

If these experimental M. tuberculosis populations are representative of in vivo persisters (i.e., mycobacteria that survive in the setting of appropriate therapy and necessitate long treatment ...